[talk-au] Slower tile.openstreetmap.org Access / Server Retirement

[Brendan Barnes]

Hey Grant,

Firstly, a big thank you to AARNet and the OSM Operations Team for running
the local render servers over the past five years. It's been a huge help to
the project locally.

As AWS kindly runs palulukon for us in US East (Ohio), are there any
discussions with their team to consider also donating local compute from
AWS Asia Pacific Sydney or Melbourne?

Similarly, Equinix runs tile servers in Europe, any discussions about a
local Equinix datacentre with spare compute?


On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 at 22:11, Grant Slater <grant at osmfoundation.org> wrote:

> Hi OSM Australia,
>
> We have recently had to retire two tile.openstreetmap.org render servers
> which were very generously provided by AARNet for the past five years. The
> OSM Operations Team would like to extend our sincere thanks to AARNet for
> their invaluable support during this period.
>
> Unfortunately, the tile.openstreetmap.org service will now be slower to
> access from Australia, New Zealand, and parts of South-East Asia. The
> service is now backed by render servers in the USA, which are kindly
> provided by OSUOSL.org and AWS.
>
> If anyone in the Australian or New Zealand education and research
> communities can help us (the OSM Operations Team) develop a strong
> justification for hosting this or other similar OpenStreetMap core services
> in Australia, we would greatly appreciate your assistance. Our team is
> small and already working near capacity.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Grant
> On behalf of the OSM Operations Team
>
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